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Quotes About Government

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
~ H. L. Mencken
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
~ Harry S. Truman
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
~ Tench Coxe
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.", Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
~ Tench Coxe
How many people this very day, how many influential people in high government positions in the USA, Britain and other countries still hold to: Genesis 12:3: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: andin theeshall all families of the earth be blessed.
~ Terence D. McLean
Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind.
~ Terry Brooks
The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
~ Terry Deary
To answer your question, how will it be done?" the old man had said. "How shall we accomplish the postponement of Satan establishing his Antichrist government? I am not at all certain it can be done. Notice I said postponement of, not stop, its establishment. I only know I must try to do my part to hold it off as long as possible.
~ Terry James
Imagine going to book a flight and the agent politely pauses, looks up at you, and says that you are blacklisted. Your "social credit" score shows that you have been doing some things that don't sit well with the government. You are being punished, and part of the punishment is that you can't travel out of the country to visit relatives in America. You're shocked. You haven't even gotten a traffic ticket before. "There must be some mistake,
~ Terry James
Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one
~ Terry James
is a short step to licensed murder, especially when it is for so-called public benefit.
~ Terry James
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
~ Thabo Mbeki
We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.
~ Thad Cochran
Though the President is Commander-in-Chief, Congress is his commander; and, God willing, he shall obey. He and his minions shall learn that this is not a Government of kings and satraps, but a Government of the people, and that Congress is the people.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
I can give you 1040 good reasons why I hate the government.
~ The Quote Garden
Restoration is always revolution; but in this case it was not so much the old government as the old governor that was restored. The oligarchy made its appearance newly equipped in the armor of the tyrannis which had been overthrown.
~ Theodor Mommsen
But both these feeble signs of opposition by the majority of the senate and the ineffectual resistance of the minority show only the more clearly, that the government had now passed from the senate to the regents as it formerly passed from the burgesses to the senate; and that the senate was already not much more than a monarchical council of state employed also to absorb the anti-monarchical elements.
~ Theodor Mommsen
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
~ Theodore Bikel
the state looms large in all our lives, not only in its intrusions but in our thoughts: for so thoroughly have we drunk at the wells of collectivism that we see the state always as the solution to any problem, never as an obstacle to be overcome. One can gauge how completely collectivism has entered our soul – so that we are now a people of the government, for the government, by the government – by a strange but characteristic British locution.
~ Theodore Dalrymple